CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8795

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Published: Apr 02, 2017 | Modified: Apr 05, 2017
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Huawei CloudEngine 12800 with software V100R002C00, V100R003C00, V100R003C10, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00; CloudEngine 5800 with software V100R002C00, V100R003C00, V100R003C10, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00; CloudEngine 6800 with software V100R002C00, V100R003C00, V100R003C10, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00; CloudEngine 7800 with software V100R003C00, V100R003C10, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00; CloudEngine 8800 with software V100R006C00; and Secospace USG6600 with software V500R001C00 allow remote unauthenticated attackers to craft specific IPFPM packets to trigger an integer overflow and cause the device to reset.

Weakness

The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cloudengine_5800_firmware Huawei v100r002c00 (including) v100r002c00 (including)
Cloudengine_5800_firmware Huawei v100r003c00 (including) v100r003c00 (including)
Cloudengine_5800_firmware Huawei v100r003c10 (including) v100r003c10 (including)
Cloudengine_5800_firmware Huawei v100r005c00 (including) v100r005c00 (including)
Cloudengine_5800_firmware Huawei v100r005c10 (including) v100r005c10 (including)
Cloudengine_5800_firmware Huawei v100r006c00 (including) v100r006c00 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • If possible, choose a language or compiler that performs automatic bounds checking.
  • Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • Use libraries or frameworks that make it easier to handle numbers without unexpected consequences.
  • Examples include safe integer handling packages such as SafeInt (C++) or IntegerLib (C or C++). [REF-106]
  • Perform input validation on any numeric input by ensuring that it is within the expected range. Enforce that the input meets both the minimum and maximum requirements for the expected range.
  • Use unsigned integers where possible. This makes it easier to perform validation for integer overflows. When signed integers are required, ensure that the range check includes minimum values as well as maximum values.
  • Understand the programming language’s underlying representation and how it interacts with numeric calculation (CWE-681). Pay close attention to byte size discrepancies, precision, signed/unsigned distinctions, truncation, conversion and casting between types, “not-a-number” calculations, and how the language handles numbers that are too large or too small for its underlying representation. [REF-7]
  • Also be careful to account for 32-bit, 64-bit, and other potential differences that may affect the numeric representation.

References